Senate debates
Thursday, 26 March 2026
Questions without Notice
Fertiliser
2:26 pm
Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source
(—) (): Of course, the measures that we've undertaken in fuel mean that we have that shock absorber there in terms of the minimum stockholding obligation, and Minister Bowen has released 20 per cent of that. Those options were not available to previous governments. A Future Made in Australia is all about making Australia stronger. The intervention to secure 3,000 jobs yesterday at Boyne Island in Central Queensland makes Australia stronger. The intervention in Glencore at Mount Isa makes Australia stronger. That intervention and our gas reservation announcement securing the purchase of Phosphate Hill and domestic fertiliser production make Australia stronger. The interventions in Nyrstar Hobart and Port Pirie, particularly for critical minerals and metal smelting, make Australia stronger. Our intervention in the steel industry to protect the steel industry, which those opposite never would have protected, makes Australia stronger. (Time expired)
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